Shopful

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The amount that a shop can hold.

    "Fresh butter, salt beef, anchovies, tunny, a shopful of Planchet's commodities, fowls, vegetables, salad, fish from the pond and the river, game from the forest--all the produce, in fact, of the province."

Example

More examples

"Fresh butter, salt beef, anchovies, tunny, a shopful of Planchet's commodities, fowls, vegetables, salad, fish from the pond and the river, game from the forest--all the produce, in fact, of the province."

Etymology

From shop + -ful.

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